A United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices.
What is the Bland-Allison Act?
100
The first national labor federation in the United States.
What is The National Labor Union?
100
The pen name of an American author and humorist. He is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), called "the Great American Novel", and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876).
Who is Mark Twain?
100
An American journalist, lecturer, ad political philosopher, and one of the most famous practitioners of the journalistic style called muckraking.
Who is Lincoln Steffens?
100
This train track connected the country.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
200
It requires the United States Federal government to investigate and pursue trusts, companies, and organizations suspected of violating the Act.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
200
The largest and one of the most important American labor organizations of the 1880s.
What is the Knights of Labor?
200
A Pulitzer Prize-winning American author who wrote over 90 books in many genres. He wrote The Jungle.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
200
An American teacher, author and journalist. She was known as one of the leading "muckrakers" of the progressive era, work known in modern times as "investigative journalism".
Who is Ida Tarbell?
200
They worked building the train from California.
What are Chinese immigrants?
300
A 1906 United States federal law that gave the Interstate Commerce Commission the power to set maximum railroad rates.
What is the Hepburn Act?
300
It was founded in 1886 by an alliance of craft unions disaffected from the Knights of Labor.
What is The American Federation of Labor ?
300
An American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone.
Who is Jack London?
300
An American landscape painter and printmaker, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters in 19th century America and a preeminent figure in American art.
Who is Winslow Homer?
300
The company that began building the railroad tracks starting in California.
What is the Union Pacific Railroad?
400
It authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates, and upon the shippers that accepted these rebates.
What is The Elkins Act?
400
A nationwide conflict between labor unions and railroads that occurred in the United States 1894.
What is The Pullman Strike?
400
An American author of short stories and novels, mostly of a Louisiana Creole background. She is now considered by some to have been a forerunner of feminist authors of the 20th century.
Who is Kate Chopin?
400
An American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important artists in American art history.
Who is Thomas Eakins?
400
The former name of the railroad network built between California and Utah, that formed part of the "First Transcontinental Railroad" in North America.
What is Central Pacific Railroad?
500
A United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices
What is The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887?
500
The practice of politicians referencing the blood of martyrs or heroes to criticize opponents.
What is waving the bloody shirt?
500
A prominent American sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform.
Who is Charlotte Perkins Gilman?
500
A Danish American social reformer, muckraking journalist and social documentary photographer. He is known for his dedication to using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the impoverished in New York City, which was the subject of most of his prolific writings and photography.
Who is Jacob Riis?
500
It began on July 14th in Martinsburg, West Virginia, and ended some 45 days later after it was put down by local and state militias, and federal troops.